Canada’s discussion  of Trump’s designs on our water has been focused – in the West – on the Columbia. But it is the Peace River that connects the dots to fulfill the long term dream of USACE engineers to bring northern water south to American communities east of the Rockies.

Want a selfie of you with THE TAP? Go to Dunvegan, Alberta, just on the border of BC. Future site of the Amisk Dam, designed as the “elbow” that will siphon off water from the north-flowing Peace River and send it flowing south. Conveniently, all the upstream storage capacity is now in place: WAC Bennett dam, Peace Canyon dam and now Site C Dam. All ready to catch “water from the north” and send it south. EXACTLY as predicted by 8 American engineering firms in response to 1950’s call by USACEfor ways to ensure Americans do not run out of water.

Canadian’s can stop this you say?  Well. let’s just take the first instance – water diverted from Alaskan outflows and, with a little engineering, sent down into the Peace River system, thru the Amisk elbow and down into the US. Recall the US has for years been building projects that pump water up mountainsides only to allow it to fall back again, generating electricity.  These are the “Snakes and Ladders” that will facilitate inter-basin diversions.  Canada’s river systems are highways, used for centuries to move goods. Remember that water, once dammed, diverted, bottled or otherwise engineered to deliver it differently from how Mother Nature would have done, is a good under HCCS (22.01.9) and included in all trade agreements.

Do you really think we can win this argument? Think again…  The only thing left to do is to build the infrastructure.  Amisk Dam is part of that…  Read Damming the Peace – the Hidden Costs of the Site C Dam (2018, Lorimer).   See also Michael Harris’ Feb 18 2025 article in the Tyee Trump’s Obsession with Canada’s Water.